CNN Special - Moms who voted for Biden explain why they voted for a Republican(Youngkin) in Virginia

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Anonymous wrote:I honestly do not understand how people think that Democrats can support closing schools for well over a year, berate parents raising concerns, and see no electoral consequences.

Still throwing that tantrum, huh?

So irrational.

Keep digging. You'll lose even more in the next election cycle.

Yes, jerks will lash out in spite whenever they are called out for their bad behavior.

You haven't successfully called out anyone. You are just flailing. So not only are you incompetent, you are providing an object lesson in Democratic failure for the class.

I’ve been calling people out for their tantrums for over a year now.

Not successfully. You do seem to be doing a bang-up job of campaigning for the Republican party, though.

If you are measuring my success on whether I was able to stop the tantrums by calling them out, then it’s true that I failed. Tantrums continue today.

You might be more successful if you stop pretending everyone who disagrees with you is "having a tantrum." If you treat adults like they are two years old, you really should not be surprised if they vote against you.

I wonder if that poster is actually a Republican troll trying to get people to vote Republican.

+1 to it being a troll. They have the same line about tantrums on repeat and no real response to anyone that actually engages them.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m also a mom and not happy about schools being closed. But I think that was the best call during a freaking pandemic.

I want a plan to do over a year of school. Delay us graduation option. Improve facilities to prepare if this happens again. Improve vaccination production abilities.

All the education in the world won’t help my girls if they accidentally get pregnant under a R governor. That’s my feeeling sorry not sorry

Yo, who cancelled your sex Ed class? No one accidentally gets pregnant moron. It’s called sperm up the V and trust me that’s no accident. Teach your girls. Novel concept.

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Anonymous wrote:All blondes?

So? Your point. Put it out there. Sick of your passive aggressive shit.

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I’ve said it elsewhere on here. The normies are over it. They don’t want boys in their daughter’s bathrooms or sports teams. They don’t want images of oral sex in their school libraries. They don’t want to be called menstruators. They don’t want to be told they’re responsible for everything wrong in the world when they’re just doing their jobs and taking care of their kids. They’re done. Democrats need to listen instead of dismissing them as racists for not voting the way democrats want them to.

I have actually wondered how much gender issues played a role in votes for Youngkin, in addition to school closures. Trans rights are all well and good until your tween daughter starts asking to go by they/them, changing their name, and dressing like a boy. Yes, I am thinking of the other thread, but how many similar threads have we seen from concerned moms dealing with this with their girls? I historically have been a Dem. I voted for Biden and very reluctantly voted for McAuliffe based on social issues -- but I have to tell you that I am completely over the "pregnant people" language policing. There are real problems with pretending gender doesn't exist, but the left wing calls people bigoted or anti-trans if they question any of this. I think this is a much bigger concern for parents than they will admit.

+1. Though I think its not just gender, it’s all a reaction to this new democrat tactic of just flinging insane insults at people who don’t agree with them. It makes all of it meaningless. Don’t want men in a woman’s locker room? Bigot. Want kids in school? Irrational, covid denier, trumper. Want school to teach calculus? Racist. Question defunding the police? Racist. Cancelled. All the horrible words.

There is zero space for discourse in the Democratic Party and it’s really turning people off.

This. I am sick of the cancel culture. I’m sick of anyone expressing a different opinion being labeled racist. I support trans rights but do not want to be forced or pressured to choose my pronouns. I have two white sons who are kind, open-minded people and I’m scared that they are being vilified for the sins of their forefathers.

I’ve voted Dem consistently since Obama and won’t be anymore until the party starts pushing back on the progressives and extreme wokeism.

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Exit polls showed that college educated women voters were over 60 percent for Terry! That explains why one will never meet a Republican woman in sone rich person parts of Fairfax or Arlington. I haven't seen data breaking this down by race or marital status. I need that data. Kind of dumb, unforced errors by Terry. Maybe at the end he was just thinking he needed to turn out the base.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m blonde and voted for Biden and Youngkin. I would’ve voted for trump if he’d just said get the vaccine. I blame him for this crap lasting as long as it has. Voted for Youngkin because I believe in capitalism. He was ceo if Carlyle. I was very close to voting for mcsuliffe, but didn’t because I don’t want schools closed again. I’m also pro life.

Trump is the reason we have the vaccine in such a short time.

He also said get the vaccine and still says get the vaccine.

Flat out lies. Trump’s incompetence actually delayed the vaccine by 8-10 months.

And he has NEVER told anyone to get vaccinated. Not even once.

You are a lying liar.

Dap. C'mon. With a Dem admin., we just as easily could have still in the testing stage at this point.

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When this whole thing began, I recall thinking that the blue states will be the last to shut down schools because they realize the role the schools play in helping the most vulnerable among us. And yet they did close and were the last to reopen.

I still can’t believe that.

Don’t forget that plenty of k-6 kids who are unvaccinated have been quarantined (some of this was unnecessary) this year. So still missing school.

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Anonymous wrote:I honestly do not understand how people think that Democrats can support closing schools for well over a year, berate parents raising concerns, and see no electoral consequences.

Still throwing that tantrum, huh?

So irrational.

Keep digging. You'll lose even more in the next election cycle.

Yes, jerks will lash out in spite whenever they are called out for their bad behavior.

You haven't successfully called out anyone. You are just flailing. So not only are you incompetent, you are providing an object lesson in Democratic failure for the class.

I’ve been calling people out for their tantrums for over a year now.

Not successfully. You do seem to be doing a bang-up job of campaigning for the Republican party, though.

If you are measuring my success on whether I was able to stop the tantrums by calling them out, then it’s true that I failed. Tantrums continue today.

You might be more successful if you stop pretending everyone who disagrees with you is "having a tantrum." If you treat adults like they are two years old, you really should not be surprised if they vote against you.

I wonder if that poster is actually a Republican troll trying to get people to vote Republican.

+1 to it being a troll. They have the same line about tantrums on repeat and no real response to anyone that actually engages them.

I have engaged in good faith for over a year. I called out the tantrums. The parents cursing at teachers over zoom. Screaming at school board meetings. It was disgusting.

I’m not running for office. If you are voting based on comments from anonymous posters on a mommy website then we have bigger issues with grown a$$ adults throwing tantrums. Which they did. And continue to do.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m also a mom and not happy about schools being closed. But I think that was the best call during a freaking pandemic.

I want a plan to do over a year of school. Delay us graduation option. Improve facilities to prepare if this happens again. Improve vaccination production abilities.

All the education in the world won’t help my girls if they accidentally get pregnant under a R governor. That’s my feeeling sorry not sorry

Yo, who cancelled your sex Ed class? No one accidentally gets pregnant moron. It’s called sperm up the V and trust me that’s no accident. Teach your girls. Novel concept.

Birth control fails, dipsh*t.

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I actually kind of thought that given the strong risk aversion that runs through nova, The Macker, with his cautious words about the pandemic,would have had the edge. I mean, folks are still masking outside.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone please summarize? If not school then what

It is school, just not the CRT stuff or vaccine or mask mandates. They’re angry that schools stayed closed for as long as they did and that the Democrats seemed dismissive of parents’ concerns about the resulting disruption and learning loss. I certainly understand their concerns but they do come off a bit self centered… like all that matters is them and their family, not the healthcare workers or teachers or the medically vulnerable. I think Democrats’ biggest mistake wasn’t necessarily closing schools, but for not showing more concern about the fallout now. Terry couldn’t even manage to fake it. He just didn’t connect with suburban women as much as he needed to.

Yes, we all know this is why Youngkin won suburban moms who previously voted Democratic. Why is this such big news to this Pamela lady? Everybody else knew this.

McAuliffe was just a boring, uninspiring candidate. If we'd had someone young, fresh, more progressive, they would have won.

You still don't seem to get it. There is now a backlash to your "progressive" movement. It's not selling.

This. How do Dems not see that the progressive wing of their party is extremely unappealing to moderates and independents, i.e. the voters they need in order to win elections in purple states?!

As much as you want that narrative to be true, this election was not decided by moderates and independents, these people are not the ones that swung the election. MORE people voted in this election than ever before. The majority of them were from the southern, rural regions. Republicans (most of them invigorated by the Trump movement) came out in full force, like presidential election-level full force, and there were simply more of them than Democrats. If Democrats had run an Obama-type candidate, perhaps they would have inspired more young voters and minority voters who skipped this election to come out and vote.

Obama voter, Biden voter here.

I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Youngkin gives me the same energized vibes that Obama gave me. I think he will be a force to be beat in the 2024 election.

Sorry that doesn't help you but if I'm right - the Dems are screwed. Because the man is good, damned good.

The guy's form on his jump shot is really impressive.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m also a mom and not happy about schools being closed. But I think that was the best call during a freaking pandemic.

I want a plan to do over a year of school. Delay us graduation option. Improve facilities to prepare if this happens again. Improve vaccination production abilities.

All the education in the world won’t help my girls if they accidentally get pregnant under a R governor. That’s my feeeling sorry not sorry

1. You have no evidence that access to abortions in VA will change.
2. If they do change, drive to DC or MD (where there is a R governor).

You all are asking people to vote on giant abstract issues that MIGHT impact them at some point rather than things in their life that they feel are impacting them right this minute. And then judging them for it to boot. Or telling them they are just wrong and it's not really impacting them how they feel it's impacting them. Just not a winning strategy.

And you're not getting a plan to do over a year of school. No one is getting that.

1. The GOP tried the last time they were in power. They can absolutely push through legislation now that the votes line up. The GOP today is actively trying to ban abortions. Everyone is waiting on SCOTUS right now.

2. And what about women in VA who don’t live near DC? VA is a big state. Or don’t have resources to get there?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m also a mom and not happy about schools being closed. But I think that was the best call during a freaking pandemic.

I want a plan to do over a year of school. Delay us graduation option. Improve facilities to prepare if this happens again. Improve vaccination production abilities.

All the education in the world won’t help my girls if they accidentally get pregnant under a R governor. That’s my feeeling sorry not sorry

Yo, who cancelled your sex Ed class? No one accidentally gets pregnant moron. It’s called sperm up the V and trust me that’s no accident. Teach your girls. Novel concept.

Birth control fails, dipsh*t.

^^ this is a good example of what’s wrong with the Ds.

Closing schools affected everyone.

Abortion? You claim nothing will help your daughters if they get accidentally pregnant under an R governor. That’s hysterical and an extreme overreaction. Even in Texas, your daughter can still get an abortion. Simply put your daughters on birth control and teach them to monitor their cycles. I assume you’d want your daughters to have an abortion sooner rather than later anyway. To vote based on the slim chance your daughters get pregnant while on birth control and cant manage to make it to the doctor within a few weeks, is hysterical.

Makes much more sense to vote based on an issue that will absolutely affect you - closing schools. Not some abstract event.

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Anonymous wrote:When this whole thing began, I recall thinking that the blue states will be the last to shut down schools because they realize the role the schools play in helping the most vulnerable among us. And yet they did close and were the last to reopen.

I still can’t believe that.

Don’t forget that plenty of k-6 kids who are unvaccinated have been quarantined (some of this was unnecessary) this year. So still missing school.

Huh? More lower SES families selected virtual than the affluent families.

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Anonymous wrote:I honestly do not understand how people think that Democrats can support closing schools for well over a year, berate parents raising concerns, and see no electoral consequences.

I honestly don’t see how Republicans can stage a violent insurrection on the Capitol and then have the rest of the party whitewash it and support changes to state election laws in the name of election fraud than never occurred and face no election consequences.

Exactly.

Summer 2020 - local school districts decide to take cautious approach to deadly, global pandemic in light of parents/teachers concerns and a lot of uncertainty. After surge subsided & teachers are vaccinated (and willing to go back), kids are back in building. Following CDC safety guidelines. At the state level schools can open. Districts are free to decide based on local conditions.

January 2021 - Trump supporters storm the Capitol, goaded by Trump and his Big Lie. People are killed. Pipe bombs placed at DNC/RNC headquarters. We are fearful in our home as we hear about stashes of weapons nearby. After this, the GOP still continues to push The Big Lie with legislation to address “election integrity” by restricting voters and election officials.

But yeah the Ds are the bad guys here. Unbelievable.

Your version of "Summer" 2020 is a revisionist fantasy so it is impossible to take you seriously.

Which part was inaccurate? It was spot on.

The return of kids to school was not linked to any surge (look at the timing). Teachers were prioritized ahead of far more vulnerable population groups for vaccines but did not go back; in fact refused to go back. The timing was not "Summer 2020," it was approximately 18 months of time.

You also left off the enormous amount of documented learning loss that has impacted the most vulnerable children in the state the most, and the fact that there appears to be little documented evidence of outbreaks tied to school globally, and the fact that Democratic policies with respect to covid did not (and still do not) appear to be grounded in science.

This. Teachers did not go back until they were vaccinated. Surges had zero to do with anything. People like my kid's 20-something healthy teacher got prioritized so she could eventually be asked to go back and perform her job in person. And yes, many people noticed this.

The lack of outbreaks when school returned in the Fall (which the NoVa districts were forced to do by law and would not have done otherwise) really just exposed the Ds. I sincerely believe some of my most liberal leaning friends were disappointed it wasn't a disaster of epic proportions. They were waiting with bated breath for widespread outbreaks and school closures.

Oh I totally believe this too. I think they’re going to lose their minds when we finally unmask kids and the hospitalization rate doesn’t surge. And no matter how well things go, they still panic over the outlier, sad anecdotes in the news as if that is representative of what is actually going on at the macro level.